Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] happen that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may even happen that you arc able to choose where your kitchen will be , in which case bear in mind the following criteria . |
| 2 | It may well happen that the student in considering this comes to the conclusion that there is no contract between Pickwick and Podder . |
| 3 | Once the agent has received a number of offers , it may well happen that each party is advised of the offers on the table and asked if they are willing to increase their offer . |
| 4 | Now it may well happen that the moon rises in the sky but because it 's in the earth shadow we ca n't see it . |
| 5 | By analogy , it may sometimes happen that a message is improved by changing , say , an s into a G : my secretary once , misreading my writing , replaced ‘ Sod 's law ’ by ‘ God 's law ’ , and the sense was if anything improved . |
| 6 | If somebody comes up with a suggestion for a change to a procedure , at this meeting , yes you should be looking at what that suggestion for change is but all of you round the table should be thinking , well does that change adversely effect other jobs in our areas and it should n't happen that you will get change after change after change . |
| 7 | From what we have proposed as speakers ' topics in conversational discourse , it must occasionally happen that there are at least two versions of ‘ What I think we 're talking about ’ which are potentially incompatible . |
| 8 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’ |
| 10 | Even where such process does not demonstrate the incompatibility of the firms seeking a merger it will frequently happen that the actual merger will need to be delayed for an agreed period so as to phase in the new arrangements . |
| 11 | However , in a non-trivial system it will often happen that one reading of a sentence will be preferable on , say , syntactic grounds , but another will allow easier pronoun resolution . |
| 12 | It will often happen that a number of amendments , differing in form but not in substance , will be proposed to a single clause of a Bill . |
| 13 | Now it will sometimes happen that the working of the law and procedure of the Common Law Courts will result in particular cases in injustice and hardship . |
| 14 | It can also happen that a Pump Wagon is obliged to move into friendly troops , although this is rare as you can move the machine as you wish . |
| 15 | It can also happen that a speaker is interrupted and leaves a tone-unit incomplete — for example , lacking a tonic syllable . |
| 16 | Where goods are marketed indirectly and the manufacturer therefore does not sell directly to the consumer , it can nevertheless happen that the manufacturer makes a collateral contract with the consumer . |
| 17 | It can certainly happen that a head might at the same time be expected to manage the school democratically by the staff , deferentially by the governors , assertively by the local authority and pliantly by parents . |
| 18 | But it can then happen that these relations become a norm , from which other periods are interpreted or even , by contrast , judged . |